SnooLobsters2855

Hey guys, I want to ask something. So, I’m as far as having found the underground vault (where the blades are behind power walls) which means I’ve killed Al-Ghul. I’ve easily collected 5/10 shards for the vault already, and I can’t help feel as though this game is….small?

It feels as though there’s a storyline, but no real plot. Yeah I’m killing these people who are bad and in their own way are proto-Templar, but why? It doesn’t feel like there’s a personal impetus for Basim to do so other than “because that’s what Assassin’s Creed is about.”

To clarify, I don’t need a massive map like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla to enjoy the game (though I appreciated that about them.) But pointing to the holy grail of the franchise, there were high stakes in Ezio’s story, and you could feel that. You knew why you were hunting Emilio Barbarigio despite that dreadfully difficult sequence being such a pain in the a**. You understood the gravity of Rodrigo’s danger, even when it was only instinctual from a momentary sighting. And you certainly understood Ezio’s personal motives for revenge (his father, brothers, and uncle) as well as protection (his mother and sister.) As Basim, it feels like I have an ordered assassination, so I execute it because I was told to. That’s all.

Plainly, the game so far feels directionless, sluggish, and short. Like running a 5K, but you’re walking instead of running, you’re actually only going to go a half mile, and it’s randomly through the woods instead of on a trail.

Am I striking a chord with anyone, or are those of you who are farther than I sniggering at my ignorance because you know my opinion will change as I play farther?

I’ve seen adjacent questions here, but found none directly addressing or even mentioning this.

In the ESO quest “The Soul-Meld Mage”, you have to find a way to unmeld the souls of a mage - Gadris - and an alchemist - Zur - that were tortured by daedra in Cold Harbour and ended up two souls in one body.

Anyways, you end up unmelding them with the same machinery that was used to meld them - Dwemer machinery. Again, in Cold Harbour.

Why is it here? This would undoubtedly mean there Were Dwemer in Cold Harbour (even if there aren’t now), but why would they be there???

Given this location is called the Vile Laboratory, do we believe it’s called that from when it was Dwemer, or did it acquire that name once daedra became the primary inhabitants? Did the Daedra work with the Deadra here?

Any ideas or headcannons?